poverty

Abandoned by his unknown father, neglected by his mother, Alton Carter is a product of foster homes and a boy's ranch-home. As the second of five children he endured a childhood full of violence, hunger, and isolation. But he never gave up, standing up to abusive relatives and sibling and cousin bullies. He always kept an eye out for those he encountered who might help him along the way to his goal : a normal life. And through sheer determination he got it. A former police officer he is now director of youth ministries for a methodist church.

Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack community.

Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, and is located 93 miles (150 km) south of Florida. There's a lot to discover about Cuba!.

Readers are invited to discover the countries of the Caribbean: their history, natural features, economies, people and cultures, and important cities.

Twelve-year-old Dubliner Kathleen Delaney is given the chance to take Irish dancing lessons in 1937 and discovers she has a talent for it.

A play about a black family's struggle to buy a house in a white neighborhood, after the father dies. An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member. It deals with their attempt to maintain dignity, self-respect, and a sense of humanity.

"Chelsea is seventeen and broke. Her father can't pay the bills, so she takes matters into her own hands by playing poker at a casino"--Publisher provided.

Through narrative nonfiction text, readers hear stories from survivors of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010.

The author articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America, but what poverty is truly like on all levels. Also discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should.".